The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-08-12

A HUNGARIAN coke drawer at Gallibren,
Pa, went to work on the I'd at the mines of
the Blair Iron and Coal Company. Later
a number of his countrymen sought him
and murdered him for being q traitor TO
the cause Of their strike. Several arrests
have been made.
On the Cd several men were killed by the
falling Of a wall of the burned elevator at
Minneapolis, MINI.
CHOLERA is epidemic and very fatal at
the island Of Malta, in the Mediterranean.
On the Sd an explosion OF dynamite oc-
CURED in Bitiro, a suburb Of Messina,
Sicily, killing one person and injuring
thirty, besides doing much damage to
property. The occupants of the house in
which the explosion occurred were ar
rested.
DANIEL DESMOND, a clerk for the dry
goods firm of lie Boutellier Brothers, New
York, was arrested on the I'd, charged with
having embezzled during the past year
$12,0 GOO, the proceeds Of sales of laces.
On the Sd Nichols PanOliedo, Greek,
confined in the county jail in San Fran
cisco, murdered his cell-mate, George II.
Marshall, who was awaiting trial on
charge Of grand larceny. The weapon
used was a pocket-knife.
On the Sd Miss Holmes, late exchange
clerk of the Fidelity National Bank Of Gin
cinnati, who has been in jail in default Of
bail in the sum of $4,000 on charge Of
aiding and abetting E. l.. Harper in COM
mitting offences against the National
Banking law, was released upon her own
recognizance, upon the recommendation Of
District Attorney Burnett. She will squeal.
On the Sd, Augustus Damn, noted pro
fessional forger, wanted at Parker, Oak,
and Peoria, ILL.,, was captured at Mime
apolis, Mimi. He had once been captured in
Texas for the Peoria forgeries, but escaped
while passing through Missouri by jump
ing from the train.
On the 4th Baltimore had a $5O0,OOO fire,
| in which fireman lost his life.
SIX brewers were killed by the explosion
Of beer kettle at Green Bay, Wis, on the
/ 4th.
/ THE losses by the collapse of the Cali
fornia wheat clique are estimated at about
! So, ,OO0,OOO.
On the 4th George Forth, a notorious
/ burglar and diamond thief, was captured
in Jersey City, N. j.
/ On the 4th Mrs. Prajak, a Bohemian
woman, living in the eastern section OF
/ Baltimore, Md, drowned her twelve
months-old child in bath-tub. After the
child was dead she returned with it to her
room and placed it on the bed, locking her
self in. She then cut her own throat with
a razor.
! ON the 4th a disastrous fire occurred at
/ Bowling Green, o. The blaze started in a
saloon, and before it could be checked two
whole squares were swept out and twenty
two houses burned. Loss, S5O,0OO; insur-
ence, $4,000.
on the 4th a sixth attempt was made to
! burn the New York ZeitHRg Office. This
time but little damage was done, and the
fire was put out before the arrival of the
| firemen.
A FIERCE storm struck Sherman, Tex,
on the 9th, doing considerable damage.
VIOLENT shocks of earthquake have been
felt at Laghoaut, Algeria. A number OF
houses were destroyed.
THE Chicago bOOdlers were all adjudged
guilty by the jury on the night of the 5th
| Seven were given penitentiary sentences
and the rest fined.
WIN. H. WETHERELI, Of Kansas City
Mo-, aged thirty-si committed suicide on
! the 9Th.
THERE were four new cases of cholera
and four deaths at Malta on the 9Th.
FIFTY tons of rock fell in the eastern end
of the Cascade tunnel, now building by the
| Northern Pacific railroad, on the 4th, kill
ing four men and wounding several others
1t is thought none of the wounded will die
TIE jury in the celebrated Culbreath
lynching case, at Columbia, s. c., returned
a verdict on the 9th of not guilty. The de-
PENDANTS were served so that only two oi
the lynchers-W illiam Parker and Wyatt
Holmes-were on trial, and upon the
announcement of the verdict the State''
attorney entered a nolle PROSE- ai
to the other thirty defendants.
THE New York police say that Mooney
who tried to blow up the steamer Queen, il
an ex-Fenian and ex-member Of the Clan
Na-Gael, and is believed to have had
hand in the attempt to blow up the loca
government building in London and the
Parliament house in Quebec, besides the
| explosion on the steamer GuyandOtte anC
the burning of the Cromwell line.
MIILBRoOK, Graham County, Kas., wa
almost destroyed about sundown of tn
4th by a straight wind coming from slight
| ly west of north. The place contains abOu
five hundred inhabitants. Only one house
a residence, escaped serious damage. FOu
persons, one of them a boy three year
old were killed. About twenty-five wer,
injured.